Jake McCluskeyStand Your Watch

A free book by Jake McCluskey

The Man They
Actually Live With

21 chapters. About 2 hours of reading. No cost, no catch.

A cracked white mug mended with gold along every break, a glowing gold cross across its face, sitting beside an open Bible on a dark wooden table in low warm light.

Your family deserves the best version of you. And that version is you living a Christlike life.

This is a book for the man who is one person at work and another one at home. The man whose kids read his face before they ask him anything. The man who knows the gap between who everybody thinks he is and who his family actually lives with.

I was going to print it. I am giving it away instead, the whole thing, because the men who need it most are not the men who go looking for a book about it.

Read it in order if you can. Part One is about the man underneath the roles. Part Two is about husbands. Part Three is about fathers. Or start wherever your name is written.

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Contents

  1. A Letter to the Man Whose Family Gets the Worst of Him2 min
  2. How to Read This Book1 min

Part OneAll Men

  1. 1Two Men, Same Name7 min
  2. 2The Anger You Think You're Hiding7 min
  3. 3What You Reach For6 min
  4. 4The Night It Almost Ended9 min
  5. 5Grace Before Growth7 min
  6. 6Built on His Knees6 min
  7. 7One Man Who Knows7 min
  8. 8You Don't Get the Years Back6 min

Part TwoHusbands

  1. 9She Married the Man You Were Going to Be10 min
  2. 10You Set the Weather7 min
  3. 11The Apology She Stopped Believing7 min
  4. 12Trust Comes Back in Inches7 min
  5. 13Strength That Makes Her Safe7 min

Part ThreeFathers

  1. 14They Took Their Problems to Their Mother5 min
  2. 15The Kids Who Learned to Tiptoe6 min
  3. 16The First Picture of God They Get7 min
  4. 17Break the Line6 min
  5. 18The Apology a Father Owes6 min
  6. 19In the Room6 min
  7. 20Raise Them Toward the Father Who Never Fails6 min
  8. 21Their Turn to Watch You Kneel4 min
  1. The Final Prayer1 min
  2. About the Author1 min
  3. The Page With the Numbers1 min

Copyright Jake McCluskey. Given away free. Share it with a man who needs it; do not sell it.